1. Laudation

   • Jürgen Spranger

   Announcement Pages: 339 - 339

2. The pioneers of pediatric medicine

   • C. Vullo Ferrara
   • H. -R. Wiedemann

   Announcement Pages: 340 - 340

3. The role of eicosanoids in paediatrics

   • H. W. Seyberth
   • P. G. Kühl

   Reviews Pages: 341 - 349

4. Knemometry, a new tool for the investigation of growth

   • M. Hermanussen

   Reviews Pages: 350 - 355

5. Carnitine plasma concentrations in 353 metabolically healthy children

   • E. Schmidt-Sommerfeld
   • D. Werner
   • D. Penn

   Original Investigations Pages: 356 - 360

6. Long-term development of intelligence (IQ) and EEG in 34 children with phenylketonuria treated early

   • J. Pietz
   • Ch. Benninger
   • H. Bickel

   Original Investigations Pages: 361 - 367

7. DNA analysis of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency

   • U. Wendel
   • E. Wilichowski
   • C. Bachmann

   Original Investigations Pages: 368 - 371

8. Juvenile acid maltase deficiency presenting as paravertebral pseudotumour

   • T. C. Iancu
   • A. Lerner
   • S. Moses

   Original Investigations Pages: 372 - 376

9. Kawasaki disease: monitoring of circulating immune complexes

   • E. Salo
   • R. Kekomäki
   • O. Wagner

   Original Investigations Pages: 377 - 380

10. Haemorheologic and fibrinolytic evaluation in obese children and adolescents

    • E. Cacciari
    • A. Balsamo
    • S. Coccheri

    Original Investigations Pages: 381 - 384

11. Intermittent microalbuminuria in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus without clinical evidence of nephropathy

    • P. Mullis
    • H. P. Köchli
    • H. P. Schwarz

    Original Investigations Pages: 385 - 388

12. Breast contact thermography for differentiation between premature thelarche and true precocious puberty

    • E. Fréjaville
    • G. Pagni
    • C. Orlandi

    Original Investigations Pages: 389 - 391

13. High-frequency oscillatory ventilation combined with intermittent mandatory ventilation in critically ill neonates: 3 years of experience

    • E. Blum-Hoffmann
    • R. J. Kopotic
    • F. L. Mannino

    Original Investigations Pages: 392 - 398

14. Blood sampling in very low birth weight infants receiving different levels of intensive care

    • M. Obladen
    • M. Sachsenweger
    • M. Stahnke

    Original Investigations Pages: 399 - 404

15. Comparison of serum concentrations of ceftazidime and tobramycin in newborn infants

    • I. Tessin
    • K. Thiringer
    • J.- E. Brorson

    Original Investigations Pages: 405 - 407

16. Recessive lethal chondrodysplasia, “round femoral inferior epiphysis type”

    • P. Maroteaux
    • R. Stanescu
    • J. Cousin

    Original Investigations Pages: 408 - 411

17. Italian experience regarding the prevention of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies

    • G. Romeo
    • M. Devoto
    • L. Felicetti

    Original Investigations Pages: 412 - 415

18. CSF glucose levels in febrile infants

    • T. Lerman-Sagie
    • M. Shohat
    • M. Nitzan

    Short Communications Pages: 416 - 417

19. Mitochondrial myopathy with lactic acidaemia, Fanconi-De Toni-Debré syndrome and a disturbed succinate: cytochrome c oxidoreductase activity

    • W. Sperl
    • W. Ruitenbeek
    • J. P. Guggenbichler

    Short Communications Pages: 418 - 421

20. Pathologic childhood aerophagy: an under-diagnosed entity

    • Y. Rosenbach
    • I. Zahavi
    • G. Dinari

    Case Reports Pages: 422 - 423

21. Concomitant cytomegalovirus infection and congenital toxoplasmosis in a newborn

    • F. de Zegher
    • J. F. Sluiters
    • H. J. Neijens

    Case Reports Pages: 424 - 425

22. Mononucleosis-like syndrome associated with a multisystem Coxsackie virus type B3 infection in adolescence

    • J. Begovac
    • V. Puntarić
    • V. Presečki

    Case Reports Pages: 426 - 427

23. Congenital malignant mesothelioma

    • H. Nishioka
    • K. Furusho
    • Y. Nakashima

    Case Reports Pages: 428 - 430

24. Renal, pancreatic and hepatic dysplasia sequence

    • D. Carles
    • F. Serville
    • J. M. Gonnet

    Case Reports Pages: 431 - 432

25. The neonatal pseudo-hydrocephalic progeroid syndrome (Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch)

    • C. Rudin
    • L. Thommen
    • U. Bühler

    Case Reports Pages: 433 - 438

26. Trichothiodystrophy without photosensitivity

    • A. Fois
    • P. Balestri
    • P. Lagomarsini

    Case Reports Pages: 439 - 441

27. Increased secretion of fibronectin and collagen by progeria (Hutchinson-Gilford) fibroblasts

    • F. X. Maquart
    • G. Bellon
    • J. P. Denoeux

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 442 - 442

28. The prevalence of supernumerary nipples in Arab infants and children

    • L. Jaber
    • P. Merlob

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 443 - 443

29. Caffey disease responding to high-dose immunoglobulin

    • M. Berthier
    • D. Bonneau
    • J. L. Huret

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 443 - 444

30. Thrombo-embolic complications after splenectomy in HbE-β-Thalassaemia

    • F. A. Wijburg
    • W. van den Berg
    • R. S. Weening

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 444 - 445

31. The effects of diet discontinuation in children with phenylketonuria

    • F. M. E. Slijper
    • J. Huisman
    • L. v. d. Schot

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 445 - 445

32. Amniotic fluid AFP level in Galloway syndrome

    • A. M. Oudesluys-Murphy
    • A. J. M. Hoogenboom

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 445 - 446

33. Elevated plasma galactitol levels in patients with congenital cataracts without apparent enzyme defect

    • C. Jakobs
    • A. C. Douwes
    • Y. S. Shin

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 446 - 446

34. Lissencephaly

    • R. Mielke
    • J. H. Lu
    • J. U. Prause

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 447 - 448

35. Cardiac involvement in Coffin-Lowry syndrome

    • M. Krajewska-Walasek
    • K. Kubicka
    • J. Ryżko

    Letters to the Editors Pages: 448 - 448